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Japanese police raided a cult training center at the foot of
Mount Fuji on Sunday, charging that the group was preparing a mass
murder with lethal gases.

More than 1,000 officers entered the Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme
Truth Sect) complex at the village of Kamiku Isshiki.

The police have evidence that may link the cult to the
poisonous-gas attack on Tokyo's subway system, the Kyodo News
Agency reported Sunday.

The news agency said police had found that the combination of
chemicals in the nerve gas used in the subway attack was
identical to that of the two previous cases in which the gas,
sarin, apparently was used.

One of those cases was an incident in July in which small
amounts of a toxic chemical were released near the training center
in Kamiku Isshiki. Byproducts of sarin were discovered on the
ground.

The other apparent release of sarin was in June in the city of
Matsumoto in central Japan. A mist of sarin suddenly wafted through
a neighborhood one evening, killing seven people and injuring about
200.

The neighborhood in Matsumoto included a building where several
judges were hearing a case about a land dispute involving Supreme
Truth.

In Monday's attack in Tokyo, 10 people were killed, almost
5,000 were overcome, and the subway system was briefly paralyzed.

The Kyodo News Agency also said police had discovered a secret
underground bunker beneath a building at the foot of Mount Fuji. …